Publications VSW Press

VSW Press publishes books by artists. Each title is made in collaboration with the artist in limited and open editions.

  • VSW Press, founded by Joan Lyons in 1971, has been foundational for the field of artists’ books through consistently publishing books by artists and providing resources for criticism and collections.

    In 1984 Joan Lyons edited the first anthology of critical essays and sources for the field of artists’ book. Lyons also edited a volume on VSW’s publishing activity, Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971-2008, an annotated bibliography with statements by many of the author-artists VSW has worked with.

    We have an online bookstore, frequently participate in other book fairs nationally, and we have a small bookstore on-site at VSW where our titles and other books are launched, exhibited, and sold on consignment for artists.

  • Aaron Turner There May Still Be Time Left

    Online Bookstore

  • Recent Publications:

  • Bouquets book cover, gray with white square with title written in it.

    Bouquets 11-20: Notebooks by Rose Lowder

  • Blue book cover with hand written notes and diagrams. At the top of the cover reads Peggy Ahwesh, Sourcebooks.

    Sourcebooks by Peggy Ahwesh

  • New Utopia and Light Fracture book cover.

    New Utopia and Light Fracture by Luther Price

  • Missing Department book cover.

    Missing Department by Ligia Bouton and Matt Donovan

  • There May Still Be Time Left book cover, black with three white shapes in the middle.

    There May Still Be Time Left by Aaron Turner

  • Measuring Time book cover, black background with a square image of a hand on a turntable.

    Measuring Time by Ephraim Asili

  • Feral Domestic book cover; cursive handwritten title and authors.

    Feral Domestic by Dani and Sheilah ReStack

  • Borderlands by Hannah Smith Allen book cover

    Borderlands by Hannah Smith Allen

  • We Have Never Been Earth by Andrea Průchová Hrůzová and Tomáš Hrůza

  • Open spread from Dark Matter; two pages with abstract gray patterns.

    Dark Matter by Granville Carroll

  • 202-456-1111 by Jason Lazarus with Martha Rosler book cover

    202-456-1111 by Jason Lazarus with Martha Rosler

  • Go-Rilla Means War book cover; red font on red background.

    Go-Rilla Means War by Crystal Z Campbell

  • Move On With Your Sad Empty Childless Life by Nur Balkir

  • A Small Make Believe Neighborhood book cover, black and white image of people holding a large globe.

    A Small Make Believe Neighborhood by Alejandro Cartagena